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Originally posted by bollinger: ↑

While you have a point, it is also pointless. Factories in Australia did not close because unions drove up wages too high.
To compete with factories in China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand etc Australian workers would have to accept salaries of $250 a month. That is simply not going to work in Australia.
But, and here is why your post it pointless, there are several other reasons why the factories would not have stayed in here regardless of wages.
Factories in these other countries are huge because they have a labor supply that can staff them. Many workers live on dormitories on site because the factories are so large it would be impossible for them to get to and from their shift if they lived in the burbs.
Australians, rightfully so demand a quality of life that these factories cannot supply. They want to have a family, buy a house and follow the football or whatever.
No city in Australia have that sort of labor supply that is flexible enough to staff these factories.
These factories are often subject to very loose environmental laws that if we accepted here would make our cities polluted cesspools.
Large multinationals set up off shore because of all these and other factors. Wages was just one of the reasons and making some Australians work for a pittance would not have saved the jobs.
It is always professional people who complain they are underpaid and think unionised labor is earning huge salaries that make the point that unions ruined the country. Wait until AI destroy professional jobs and you will hear another story.

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the unions were inflexible, not adaptable, not viable. They could have at least offered to renegotiate lower wages. small point tokenism. But please don't let business screw them threw free markets like now. Destroy everything just out of principle. Lose job don't care go on dole. If I am offensive. just mod me ' ;; all ancient histroy.
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